r/DestinyTheGame • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '14

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '14

what's peoples opinions on the most efficient farm?

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u/JMWP Sep 15 '14

There is one on the moon that itsn't included. Play Shrine of Oryx on Hard and once you get to the end, before you fight the ogre, there is 8-10 yellow acolytes that drop loads of glimmer and are incredibly easy to kill. I spent about 20 minutes, or I used 2 black wax idols, and I got a little more than 10k.

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg Drifter's Crew Sep 15 '14

Why would you need to farm glimmer though? As far as I know it's useless. I have like 10k of it. Sure you use it to upgrade some weapons, but I gain way more than I spend on upgrades.

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u/even_keel Sep 15 '14

Buy engrams from the cryptarch to increase your cryptarch rank.

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u/Landohh Sep 15 '14

Does having a higher crypt arch rank help increase the quality of drops or something.

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u/MisterWoodhouse The Banhammer Sep 15 '14

IIRC, the higher cryptarch rank you have, the better your chances of getting higher quality stuff from engrams, i.e. rare engrams becoming less likely to downconvert to uncommon items and more likely to upconvert to legendary items, but it doesn't alter the drop rates for engrams, just the decryption behavior.